K.T. McFarland

Kathleen Troia McFarland (22 July 1951-) was Fox News' national security analyst and the designated Deputy National Security Adviser by President-elect Donald Trump on 25 November 2016.

Biography
Kathleen Troia was born on 22 July 1951 in Madison, Wisconsin, and she graduated from George Washington University. While in college, McFarland was an intern in the White House, working in the West Wing for seven years as a member of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council Staff. From 1982 to 1985, McFarland served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, and she became a speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. In 2005, McFarland decided to run in the New York senatorial election as a Republican Party member, but Yonkers mayor John Spencer defeated her. McFarland joined Fox News as a national security analyst, and she criticized President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, claiming that he ignored the threat that global Islamism posed to western civilization. On 25 November 2016, President-elect Donald Trump selected her as his Deputy National Security Adviser, and she would take office on 20 January 2017 when he was sworn into office.